BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nearly four land and environmental activists were killed each week last year, murdered for opposing large-scale agriculture and mining projects in the deadliest year on record, a campaign group said on Tuesday. In 22 countries surveyed by U.K.-based Global Witness, at least 207 activists wereContinue Reading
TORONTO (Xinhua) A 18-year-old female university student and a 10-year-old girl were killed, and 13 others injured when a gunman opened fire in a busy Toronto street Sunday night. The suspected shooter, a 29-year-old Toronto man, also died. Toronto police said he used a handgun to shoot and and exchangedContinue Reading
The Police Command in Niger state has arrested three suspected armed robbers who have been terrorising the people of Wushishi Local Government Area (LGA) of the state. The command’s Public Relations’ Officer, DSP Mohammadu Abubakar, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday in Minna. “We received information that one AlhajiContinue Reading
The Yobe State Government says it has procured 1,000 hectares of land and loaned it out along with other farm inputs to civil servants to enable them engage in farming activities. The state’s Commissioner for Agriculture, Alhaji Mustapha Gajerima, made the disclosure in Damaturu on Tuesday in interview with NewsContinue Reading
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Monday opened a two-day training for its legal officers on emerging electoral offences ahead of the 2019 general polls. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the training was organised for INEC staff in the legal department from 10 states in theContinue Reading
A Sokoto Chief Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday remanded three brothers, Murtala Bello, 28, Dauda Bello, 27 and Maccido Bello, 20 in prison for conspiring and trespassing into the house of one Salihu Abubakar. The accused persons who reside in Rijiyar Dorowa area of Sokoto, pleaded not guilty to a three-countContinue Reading
Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, the Presidential aspirant for the Young Progressive Party (YPP), has appointed Mr Abdullahi Abubakar, a political consultant, as the Chief Operating Officer of his 2019 Presidential campaign. Prof. Moghalu, former Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, also announced Ebere Samuel as the National Coordinator forContinue Reading
Mr Danladi Ibrahim, the Acting Managing Director of National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA), said the Baro port had been completed and was ready to start operations. Addressing newsmen in Lagos on Monday, Ibrahim said the Baro and Lokoja ports would be inaugurated by President Muhammadu Buhari before the end ofContinue Reading
MONTREAL: Fourteen people, including a young girl, were shot near downtown Toronto, police in Canada’s biggest city said on Sunday, with one person killed and the gunman also dead.The young girl was in a critical condition, Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders said. “We are looking at all possible motives… andContinue Reading
